"Why'd the chicken cross the road?"
"I don't know."
"To get to the other side."

This was a good joke, with a pun that people probably wouldn't have thought of. But since it's creation, there has been hundreds of bad puns spinning off the original.

"Why'd the man cross the road?"
"I don't know. To get to the other side...?"
"Uuuh... no. To get to the hot babe on the other side. Hahahaa."
"Shut up fag."

...cross the road? jokes are similar to "yo' mama" jokes in the sense that a few people have mastered the art of telling one, but most only dream of basking the flory of accomplishing that.

I had decided to cheer Carrie up after her boyfriend Riley had dumped her. "Hey Carrie! Why'd the chicken cross the road?" "Listen," she said to me. "I already know the joke. To get to the other side. Stop trying to cheer me up." Chavez came over after he heard this and tried to piss her off instead. "Hey Carrie, why'd the woman cross the road?" "To get to the other side, Chavez...." Chavez smiled and said, "No. But who cares!? What's she doing out of the kitchen?"